DIR (to nexus) YOU SEE HERE: HTML The BibTeX Format DIR (to nexus) Human cardiac catheterization was introduced by Werner Forssman in 1929. Ignoring his department chief, and tying his assistant to an operating table to prevent his interference, he placed a urethral catheter into a vein in his arm, advanced it to the right atrium [o his heart], and walked upstairs to the x-ray department where he to the confirmatory x-ray film. In 1956, Dr. Forssman was awarded the Nobel Prize.